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Adria Airways has abruptly suspended all operations from its base in Paderborn as of this morning, just three months after commencing operations from the north-western German city. The Slovenian carrier has discontinued flights to Vienna and Zurich, which were jointly maintained a total of fifteen times per week. In a statement, the airline said, "Adria Airways and Paderborn Airport could not agree on the conditions of the airport services agreement anymore under which flight operations would continue. Unfortunately, this resulted in the suspension of further Adria Airways operations from the base in Paderborn". Initially, Adria also operated services from the German city to London Southend Airport, however, the flights were discontinued as of January 6 due to poor loads.

Adria's Paderborn base has been beset by problems since it was opened. Services were originally to commence during the 2018 summer season but the airline was unable to secure the lease of Saab 2000 turboprops on time. It eventually launched operations from the German city in November and utilised a wet-leased ATR72 turboprop from Nordica's subsidiary Regional Jet. Outside of Ljubljana, Adria boasts a base in Pristina from which it handled 157.931 passengers in 2018. In 2017, the carrier closed down its base in Lodz in Poland. Over the past few years it also considered stationing aircraft in Klagenfurt in Austria, as well as Verona, Bratislava and Bern.

Paderborn Airport, which handled 736.000 passengers in 2018, said, "As of February 3, 2019, Adria Airways will cease all operations at Paderborn. The airline has assured us that all measures will be taken to rebook affected passengers on time". It refused to comment on why the airline was pulling out of the airport. In October, Adria Airways' General Manager, Holger Kowarsch, said, "The cooperation between Adria Airways and Paderborn Airport exemplifies how, thanks to good partnerships, new travel opportunities can be created that appeal to both business and tourism customers, and we look forward to establishing our promising relationship with Paderborn Airport".

Adria Airways will also be suspending operations from Ljubljana to both Moscow and Dusseldorf this month.

As usual, I think it's German Bureaucracy. I flew with this airline from Paderborn and it had decent ambient. The staff was professional and actually better than Lufthansa or any another German airlines.

That Orange airline from Greece is growing like crazy there. Last year they grew by 280%And they carried 200.000 passengers to just four destinations.Why can't JP take advantage of that market instead?

they had a "risk sharing deal", but the airport did not feel like to extend it after realizing that the ZRH route is still in the red and that Adria did not even start to do some marketing for the route after so many months (there are only some 7 to 11 customers in the very region that would ensure the route would be profitable; but they did not close a deal with any of those companies)

ZAG doesn´t make sense, LJU is too close. A lot of diaspora already uses LJU instead of ZAG for flights to Skopje, Podgorica, Tirana, Prishtina. That´s also why these flights wont see the decreased frequencies from LJU. They are even increasing it from time to time.

It's quite simple. Padeborn airport and the contractors there are just not as generous as LJU ones. They demand payment for their services, while at LJU everything just goes on Adria's tab to be paid later.

Hidden state subsidies? Not from Fraport (there just government gives financial guarantees), but government owned Petrol? I never see them fueling in ZRH, so mainpart of their fuel usage is probably fm Petrol

They used to tanker a lot of fuel to LJU due to very high fiel price at LJU (no surprise, Petrol having a monopoly). If they have suddenly stopped doing this, it could indicate they prefer to increase their debt to Petrol rather to pay cheaper fuel somewhere else.

If the rumors about LH Group pulling the plug on the summer ACMI deals are true, it's game over. 4K has also just parted ways with Adria's COO, whom they brought into the company, and was quite an important figure.

So all signs are pointing to evacuation of the company. Once the financial hole is made public, the authorities will start looking in the books, so the proverbial rats are fleeing from the scene of the crime.

To me it is utterly unbelievable that DUS does not work from/to Slovenia, it is an airport with a catchment area of almost 20 million people in 3 countries, plus an economical powerhouse that also guarantees high yields. How on Earth can Adria fail there, without any nonstop competition?

In the last decade more and more t/o's are becoming very cautious when it comes to buying guarantee seats (charters or split charters), most t/o's dont want to take these risks anymore; a phenomenon that can be seen almost all over Europe (Poland is an exception I know). Pro rata seats are more expensive but they can also sell these to customers or the t/o's dont care about selling the flight as it is hotels and extra services/ancillaries where money is made (profit contribution).

Furthermore, for Slovenians Dubrovnik is still too close apparently, judging by number of cars with their plates in Southern Dalmatia, not only but particularly in summer. Though it is 7 hours by car in winter and rather 9 hours at least during summer with jams and boarder crossing madness.

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